Brunsbuttel Power Station

Brunsbuttel Power Station is proposed by Sudweststrom/Iberdrola to have an installed capacity of 800 megawatts. In January 2007 SüdwestStrom announced that it proposed to build one or two 800 MW or 1,000 MW units in partnership with Iberdrola. Iberdrola, Power in Europe, an energy trade newsletter reported, "is to build and operate, and take a stake in the station assuming the project goes ahead." The current proposal is for two 800 MW units. Since the announcement of the project, the Swiss company Rätia Energie has enetered into an agreement with SüdWestStrom giving it the option of participating in all new power station projects of its partner. Rätia Energie has decided to participate in Brunsbüttel.

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